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Writing Prompt: Modern Retelling
I would love to see a modern retelling of "God Vs The Morning Star" but instead of the story being like:
"demons and hell are sexy fun badasses and God is boringly evil👿"
it's an updated story where the Devil is truly evil in the most horrifying way possible as society has developed an updated idea of what true evil is.
Take Christianity which has been oversaturated with mysogynistic ableistic conservatives and make the Devil the personification of evil who wishes to corrupt everyone into those assholes.
For example, "The Devil believes that women should be slaves and Lilith is the original not-feminist Girlboss who is willing to throw all other women down in order to succeed"
or
"The Devil left Heaven once he saw that God was allowing gay people to exist without torturing them."
or
"The Devil is a massive abuser who will try and manipulate anyone into believing that it was his daddy issues that made him this way so that's why it's perfectly okay for him to do whatever he wants"
Instead of the Devil being an insanely attractive perfect guy with a bad boy exterior, why don't you make him an abusive incel with a huge superiority complex and the most manchild-infused tantrums ever?
Make God the omniscient compassionate God they are supposed to be.
Make evilness seem unattractive, immature, and horrible to be the victim of.
Make goodness the most attractive option
look i was raised hindu, and maybe it was obvious since so many of our stories involve people like this, but it's so weird that people get mad that abusive characters in fiction are also given redeeming qualities, and those redeeming qualities are elaborated upon in context of the person.
'it's abuse apologia-' no it isn't. it's about realizing that abusers aren't mustache-twirling villains, and how no amount of talent, skill and kindness you might have will ever excuse your harm. abusers are people; dehumanizing bad people and making them into caricatures ignores the reality that horrible people can and do lead lives that are upstanding in many ways.